Combined butter plate and wrapper.



N0. 684,85I. Patented Oct'. 22, 190|.l

M. OMEABA.

CUMBINED BUTTER PLATE AND WRAPPEB.

'Application med Feb. 3, 1900.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT (n )rricnlv i MARTIN OMEARA, OF JACKSON, MICHIGAN.

COMBINED BUTTER PLATE AND WRAPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 684,851, dated October22, 1901. Application filed February 3, 1900. Serial No. 3,867. (Nomodel.)

To all whom, t may concern.-

Beit known that I, MARTIN OMEARA, a citizen of the United States,residing at Jackson, in the county of Jackson and State of Michigan,have invented a new and useful Combined Butter Plate and Wrapper, ofwhich thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to plates or dishes of wood veneer, wood-pulp,paper-pulp, or like material in which butter in small quantities isdelivered by the grocer or dairyman, and has for its object to combinewithin a plate or dish of this class a paper Wrapper which when theplates or dishes are packed for shipment or storage will be foldedwithin the plate with which it is combined and covered and protectedfromdust and dirt by the next plate of the stack, the wrapper being sofolded in the plate that it may be readily wrapped around thebnttervplaced on the plate.

With this object in view my invention consists in the improvedconstruction, arrangement, and combination of parts hereinafter fullyset forth and afterward specifically pointed out in the appended claims.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my inventionappertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe itsconstruction and operation, reference beinghad to theaccompanyingdrawings, forming part hereof, in which- Figure lis aperspective view of a combined plate and wrapper constructed i-naccordance with my invention, the wrapper being folded in the plate.Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the same on a plane cutting vertically andlongi tudinally through it. Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the combinedplate and wrapper, the outline of the plate, that part of the wrapperglued to the plate, and the lines on which the wrapper folds being shownin dotted lines. Fig. 4 is a vertical transverse section through theplate and wrapper with a comparatively large piece of vbutter in theplate and inclosed in the wrapper. Fig. 5 is a similar View, thequantity of butter being smaller. Fig. 6 is a similar sectional view ofa combined plate and wrapper, the wrapper being secured to the plate andfolded in a slightly-different manner. Fig. 7 is a similar View with alump of butter wrapped in the plate.

Like letters of reference mark the same parts Wherever they occur in thevarious figures of the drawings;

Referring to the drawings by letters, A indicates the plate or dish, andB the wrapper. The wrapper is secured to the plate by glu; ing theportion O thereto, and for purposes of transportation or storage thewrapper is folded into the plate, as best shown in Figs. l and 2, beingso folded that it will be protected against dust and dirt by the nextplate of the stack. To prepare .for wrapping the butter, the wrapperisspread out, as indicated in Fig. 3, the cross dotted lines D Eindicating the lines of folding, and when the butter is placed on thewrapper and in the plate, if a small quantity of but-ter, as at F inFig. 5, the wrapper is carried under the plate and then over the butter,as at G in Fig. 4., but if a large quantity the wrapper is carrieddirectly over and around the butter.

The wrapper when in the plate is folded back and forth after the mannerof a folding fan or accordion plaiting, and the ends then folded inward,as at H H in Figs. l and 2, and to unfold it it is only necessary toturn out the ends and pull outward on the outer fold of the Wrapper.

The place of attachment and manner of folding the wrapper into the platemay be varied without departing from the spirit of my invention, onevariation being illustrated in Figs. 6 and 7, in which there are sevenfolds-as an instance, the middle or fourth fold from each end beingglued to the inside of the plate, so that both edges maybe brought overthe butter from opposite sides, as shown in Fig. 7. This wrapper whenfolded in the plate will be thoroughlyprotected by the next plate ofthestack.

In some instances it may be deemed advisable to simply fold the wrapperand place it in the plate without gluing.

While I have illustrated and described what I consider to be the bestmeans now known to me for carrying out my invention, I do not .Wish tobe understood as restricting myself to the exact forms and constructionsshown, as many slight. changes therein or variations therefrom mightsuggest themselves' to the ordinary mechanic, all of which would be IOOclearly included within the limit and scope of my invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent oi' the United States, is

1. A combined butter plate and wrapper comprising a plate of Wood veneeror analogous material provided with a Wrapper folded therein and adaptedto be spread out to inclose and wrap the butter, substantially asdescribed.

2. A combined butter plate and wrapper comprising a plate and a Wrappertherein i folded after the manner of accordion plaiting, one of thefolds being secured to the in- 15 side of the plate, substantially asdescribed.

3. A combined butter plate and Wrapper comprising a plate and a Wrappertherein folded after the manner of accordion plait-` ing, one of thefolds being secured to the inside of the plate, and the folded endsturned over upon the portion Within the plate, sub stantially asdescribed.

MARTIN OMEARA

